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Saturday, 9 August 2014

Vellum hearts

Sometimes when a piece inspires me, my creation can be pretty similar to the original...and sometimes an explanation may be needed! Over on the PaperArtsy blog this week Keren Baker used vellum to create a sky and grass project. It inspired me to create this little wall plaque which I am entering into the PaperArtsy weekly challenge here

I liked the idea of stamping on vellum and using wire but I didn't have the flower stamps or dies used. What had I got, well my much loved PA heart die and instead of text I thought swirls. So I stamped on some vellum with a Darcy mini stamp (EM06) in 2 different directions with a satin pearl embossing powder.

I then used distress markers and some water, but I probably used a bit too much water as the vellum went crinkly...but I liked the effect, it looks more textured. on the finished panel.

The original piece has some background text so keeping in theme with that I painted a 18 x 12.5 cm canvas panel with some snowflake fresco paint and then used a stamp from ELB06 across the central part of the panel, stamping in versamark and satin pearl again. At this stage I was still thinking I would wire 2 hearts together off the panel but after some playing around decided to use 3 hearts and wrap copper wire around each of them. They were glued down with matte medium and of course the shape of the wire can be seen through the vellum, but I quite like that. The panel was then finished with some copper foil tape from my stash......Thanks as always for stopping by.

Beautiful creation,Ruth. I love the colours used here. I have only just discovered vellum and can't believe what a gorgeous finish it gives. By the way.....now I want Darcy's stamp,didn't realise it was so fab :) have you seen her new stamps yet? I have 1 set of them and they are truly gorgeous to work with.

Love the direction you took this project- the copper looks awesome and the hearts are very beautiful! My vellum went a little crinkly at times too ( all the best people's vellum do that 😉) fab project x